Problem with declaring variables dynamically

Hi,

Needed help with declaring variables dynamically,

String[] a = {"Cheese", "Pepperoni", "Black Olives"};

for(int arg=0;arg<a.length;arg++)
{
HashMap ------- =new HashMap();

}

I wanted the hashmap variable names to be Cheese Pappereni ..etc.

Thanks.

can you post the error that has occured.

Thanks for the reply prassana.

Actually i dint had a code in place...just wanted to see if there is a way to do that thing.

Basically i want to name my variables according to values in the array,so that i use the a variable for a set of operations.

Hope i dint confuse you.

Thanks.

ringer smack wrote:
Hi,

Needed help with declaring variables dynamically,

String[] a = {"Cheese", "Pepperoni", "Black Olives"};

for(int arg=0;arg<a.length;arg++)
{
HashMap ------- =new HashMap();

}

I wanted the hashmap variable names to be Cheese Pappereni ..etc.

Thanks.

Welcome to Javaranch!

Please use code tags when you post any code so that it looks neat like this:

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ringer smack wrote:

Please check your private messages for an important administrative matter

Sorry , i missed to tag the code

Hi,

Needed help with declaring variables dynamically,

I wanted the hashmap variable names to be Cheese Pappereni ..etc.

Sent you another private message. Please check.

This is not the first time someone asks a similar question. You cannot declare variable names dynamically, that's not how Java works. Why do you want to do this?

Use a different kind of data structure. You could use a Map, for example, to store objects by name.

Thanks a lot for the help.